Water, Water, Everywhere

(Stephanie Kienzle) Just how vindictive is North Miami Beach councilman Frantz Pierre? Based on a recent suspicious incident reported to the Police Department, it sure seems to me that he’ll go to just about any length to get even with his “enemies.”

According to yet another Internal Affairs Memorandum dated April 13, 2012 from Sgt. Richard Silberman to Interim Chief Larry Gomer, there was an incident on March 28, 2012 at the home of one Antonio Ortega involving his water meter. Yes, folks, this is the very same Water Meter Reader Antonio Ortega who had the run in with Frantzie a scant 24 days earlier when Mr. Ortega tried to read Pierre’s water meter, which I reported to you only two days ago in “Don’t You Know Who I am?”

The problem with Mr. Ortega’s meter was discovered quite by accident when one of his neighbors had her water turned off due to an unpaid bill. According to the Internal Affairs Memo, once she paid the bill, employee Lucio Gutierrez went to her house to turn her water back on when he “apparently miscounted the number of houses in the alleyway and subsequently went to the wrong meter box which was located behind … (Ortega’s residence). When Gutierrez opened the concrete box to access the meter, he noticed that the meter was in the reverse position,” which means that “any water flow would cause the meter to reverse the odometer count, which could in effect reduce the amount of water consumption a customer may be billed for.”